Hi everyone I appreciate any thoughts or experience with this. For the last 6 months I've been having some very odd not quite dreams but in that first state before sleep. They started out first as seeing people I have never seen before. Just small snippets of people's faces and occasionally there whole body. Then it progressed to people standing in front of me in these "dreams" trying to talk to me only they had no voice. Like about 1 month ago I finally heard someones voice calling out "help" to me. And finally the last one of these "dreams" that I had was a girl sitting down to what looked like a interview but it wasn't and she was being told her name was not on the list, but I (watching this) knew her name was supposed to be and she had her back to me. And she said her name "Stephanie Constrictor". After all these dreams I immediately wake up. It's strange and I have no clue why this is happening or what any of it means. Help me to understand this please.

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-Solace

Hello Solace1983,

It's quite common for other people in dreams, whether you know them or not, to represent different aspects of yourself. It could be different parts of you trying to communicate with you, which sounds a bit odd but it really isn't in dreams.

When you are awake you'd just hear yourself think in a few different voices, telling yourself what to do as you live through each day. In dreams the same things happen, but to make the voices have more substance, and sometimes to get you to listen to them (which we often do not when awake), your mind will give them a proper presense like a real person.

You can sometimes figure out what your dream/subconscious is trying to tell you by looking carefully at what the people were doing and saying, or what feelings they evoked in you.

Sometimes your mind uses images of people you know, or knew, or know of (like a celebrity/movie star) because it connects certain feelings and emotions with the way you think of these people in waking life.